Friendship Circle Kids Build Menorahs at Home Depot
Last Sunday, the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s Menorah Building workshop at the Home Depot was filled to capacity, with over 120 in attendance.
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Video: A Lesson from the Chanukah Lights
There’s an important lesson we can learn from the candles that we light each night of Chanukah.
Video: Reclaim Your Flame
Giant Menorahs are lit each Chanukah at iconic sites around the world, and in the most remote, unexpected, and breathtaking locations. Wherever there is a Jew, there is a message of light. Be that light. Light that flame.
4:00pm: National Menorah Lighting at the White House
Join the live broadcast of the lighting ceremony of the National Chanukah Menorah located on the Ellipse at the White House in Washington D.C. Featuring musical performances: popular chassidic rock band “8th Day”; Miri Ben Ari; the “United States Air Force Band”; and “The Three Cantors”.
Mivtzoim Outside Home of Subway Bomber
While law enforcement agents were searching the Kensington, Brooklyn, home of Akayed Ullah, the would-be suicide attacker who had detonated a pipe bomb in a Manhattan subway on Monday, Rabbi Yisrolik Langsam, who heads a Chabad outpost in the area with his wife Mushkie, arrived at the scene to pass out donuts and Chanukah menorahs and wrap tefillin with Jewish people present — from law enforcement, the media and passersby.
Picture of the Day: S. Paul, Minnesota
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice Chairman of Merkos Linyonai Chinuch, traveled from New York to be Menachem Avel the Feller family, who are sitting shiva in Minnesota after the passing of their matriarch, Mrs. Mindelle Feller, OBM.
Start Chanuka with a Boom at Women’s Concert
The Levi Yitzchok Library in Crown Heights presents its fifth annual “Night of Lights” Chanukah concert for women. Held as a fundraiser evening, a limited number of 100 tickets are being sold for women to experience a unique celebration of the first night of Chanukah tonight, Tuesday, December 12th. Doors open at 7:30pm and the program begins at 8:00pm.
Free Menorah Companion Download
Menachem Benchemon of Visual-Torah.com created a Chanukah menorah companion and made it available to the community for free download.
Boys Schools Quietly Change Summer Vacation Days
Crown Heights’s two largest Jewish boys’ schools have been working in conjunction and together have modified their school calendars, making changes to when the summer break begins and ends.
Hagaon Harav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, 104, Ztz”l
Hagaon Harav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman Ztz”l, one of the most widely respected Poskim of Jewish law in the haredi community, passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 104.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R’ Michoel Behrman, 78, OBM
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Michoel Behrman OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, who passed away Monday, the 23rd of Kislev. He was 78 years old.
Laws and Customs: Chanukah
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Chanukah for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
New Engagement!
Yehoshua Heshel Mangel (Blue Ash, OH) and Chaya Junik (London, England)
Video: John Lennon, Brexit, and the Jews
This lecture by Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson on the Jewish perspective of Lennon’s hit “Imagine,” and its relevance to current societal and political trends and movements, took place at the 12th annual National Jewish Retreat.
Video: Rebbe’s Letter to Public Menorah Lightings
This new inspirational video from JEM features an English letter from the Rebbe “to all participants in public Lighting of the Chanukah Menorah in the USA.”
A Chance to Take the Whole Family on Mivtzoim
Ever had a chance to take your entire family on Mivtzoim? This Chanukah will be your chance for you and your family to do just that, and join the biggest menorah parade in the world.
Boro Park Jews of All Stripes Celebrate 19 Kislev
Well over a thousand Jews of all stripes gathered together in Boro Park on Motzei Shabbos to celebrate Yud Tes Kislev, the Yahrtzeit of the Mezritcher Maggid and Yom Hageulah of the Alter Rebbe.
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